ERASMUS Agreement with MALF - Wroclaw
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ERASMUS Agreement between the
General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land Forces in Wroclaw
and the FH-Bachelor Programme Military Leadership of the
Theresan Military Academy
From 3rd to 5th April, 2012 an Austrian delegation consisting of Col (GS) Mag.
Wiedner and Col Dr. Gell, MSc, MSD, MBA visited the Military Academy of the Land
Forces in Wroclaw in Poland. The aim of the visit was to discuss possibilities for
exchanges.
The Polish and the Austrian Officers in front of the barrack’s memorial
(Source: MALF Wroclaw)
Main aim of discussion was the achievement of a whole semester studying period
abroad within the frame of ERASMUS. Founded in 1987, ERASMUS is a European
Union programme to facilitate, to encourage and to support exchanges of students
and lecturers on university level. All European Union countries as well as Croatia,
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey are members of this
programme.
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The whole visit was organised by Capt Sylwestrzak, member of the International
Office at MALF. LtCol Smolarek, Ph.D. introduced the Polish university programmes.
One of them, the programme “Military and Defence” fits to the Austrian 4th semester,
which is foreseen to be absolved abroad, perfectly. Col(GS) Mag. Wiedner and
Col Dr. Gell presented the Austrian studies and the approach to internationalization.
Col Klupa, Ph.D., (Vice-Dean of the Faculty of National Security) and Prof Luty, Ph.D.
(being responsible for the ERASMUS programme) saw in comparing the Polish and
the Austrian programmes a lot of possibilities for exchanges, for students as well as
for lecturers. An ERASMUS-Agreement would facilitate all these efforts.
Final discussions before signing the ERASMUS-Agreement
(Source: MALF Wroclaw)
Finally the ERASMUS-Agreement was signed by Col Pertek, Ph.D., acting Rector
Commandant and Col(GS) Mag. Wiedner, Deputy Head of Institute for Basic Officer
Education at the Theresan Military Academy. It was agreed that within the frame of
ERASMUS some 20 students could be exchanged for a period of one semester,
additionally four teachers and four staff members could be exchanged for a period up
to four weeks each of them.
MALF will also proof possibilities to send students to the Austrian Modules which are
conducted within the frame of the European Initiative for the exchange of young
officers inspired by Erasmus. ERASMUS-intensity programmes were discussed
too, e.g. MALF applied for a summer-school in 2013 with topic Crisis Management
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Operations. Having the lead for the Common Module Crisis Management Operation
within the European Union, Austria is very welcome to participate with lecturers and
students.
Col Pertek, Ph.D. and Col(GS) Mag. Wiedner sign the ERASMUS-Agreement
(Source: MALF Wroclaw)
This agreement (please see annex) is a next great leap forward to facilitate
exchanges and to harmonize European basic officer education.
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Annex
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